On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 00:23, Sergiu Giurgiu wrote: > hi, > I've just installed FC3 tonight (clean install) and ... I've came across > a small problem. > Users cannot be created. I hev created a user at the first-boot wizard, > I have tried to use the graphical tool, and ... at the console I tried > to use useradd. The wizard didn't say anything (like everything was ok), > the user/group manager graphical tool remain blocked when I pressed OK > to add a new user, but useradd said that it cannot alter /etc/passwd (I > don't recall the exact message). As a result, I couldn't add a new user. > To start eventually working, I have disabled selinux and rebooted. > everthing works fine now. > Given that I'm not quite knowledgeable about selinux (why is it there > and what is it doing), and this machine functions as a > workstation/desktop machine, I can say that I'm ok with this solution. > However I would like to know what was happening. Is it a bug (didn't > found reports about this)? It's a feature? Can it be fixed? If so, how? > The filesystem installed is reiserfs (does it matter?). > Thank you. What does 'audit2allow -v -i /var/log/messages' show? reiserfs doesn't yet support individual file labeling for SELinux, so all files in it are mapped to a single security type, but I would have expected you to be able to access it under the targeted policy just fine. -- Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> National Security Agency
